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STRATH SGITHEACH ALLT NA CRICHE 7

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Canmore ID 368639 SCRAP ID 3167
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 51946 63229 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 07/08/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name STRATH SGITHEACH ALLT NA CRICHE Number 7
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 51946 63229
Lat/Long 57.6346 -4.48146
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
Position in landscape Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Sloping
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SE

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Moorland

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel lies on a hillside sloping down to the SE into Strath Sgitheach and up to the NW towards Meall a'Ghuail about 1 km away. Cioch Mhor lies about 1 km to the W. The rock lies on the N side of a stream running in a 2m deep gully. The rock lies at an angle of 30 degrees, and it looks as though it may originally have been flat-lying and only later slipped into the gully.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 2.5 Width 1.5
Height (max) 1.4 Height (min)
Approximate slope of carved surface
30 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SW Carved Surface SW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel, which measures 2.5 x 1.5m and up to 1.4m in height, has 6 shallow cups 4cm in diameter on a flat surface sloping 30 degrees to the SW. It looks as though it may originally have been flat-lying and only later slipped into the gully.

C6. Probability

The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is Definite

Comments

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C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
6

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.
  • Panel is on Private land.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
  • This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added